[ANNOUNCE] Weekly Community Update 2020/23-24

[Konstantin Knauf <kn...@apache.org>]

Dear community,

happy to share this community update on the last two weeks including the
release of Stateful Functions 2.1, a table source for ElasticSearch, and a
bit more. The community is still working on release testing for Apache
Flink 1.11, so still comparably quite. Expecting the first feature
discussions for Flink 1.12 to start soon, though.

Flink Development
==============

* [releases] Apache Flink Stateful Functions 2.1.0 was released last
Tuesday. [1] For details checkout the release blog post [2].

* [connectors] Jacky Lau started a discussion on extending the
ElasticSearch connector by adding a TableSource. The source would be
bounded (similar to JDBC and Hbase) and scannable as well as lookupable. [3]

* [documentation] Robert has started a conversation on adding a Japanese
translation of the documentation. The discussion showed that a) there does
not seem to be anyone who could review these contributions and b) there are
a couple of issues in keeping the English and Chinese translation in sync
that would need to be addressed prior to adding another language. [4]

* [documentation] Seth proposed to move the code backing the "walkthroughs"
from the main *flink* repository to the *flink-playgrounds* repository. [5]

* [development process] Aljoscha proposes to update the checked–in
EditorConfig to the current code and checkstyle configuration of Apache
Flink [6]

[1]
http://apache-flink-mailing-list-archive.1008284.n3.nabble.com/ANNOUNCE-Apache-Flink-Stateful-Functions-2-1-0-released-tp42345.html
[2] https://flink.apache.org/news/2020/06/09/release-statefun-2.1.0.html
[3]
http://apache-flink-mailing-list-archive.1008284.n3.nabble.com/Discussion-flink-elasticsearch-connector-supports-tp42082p42238.html
[4]
http://apache-flink-mailing-list-archive.1008284.n3.nabble.com/DISCUSS-Add-Japanese-translation-of-the-flink-apache-org-website-tp42279.html
[5]
http://apache-flink-mailing-list-archive.1008284.n3.nabble.com/Discuss-Migrate-walkthroughs-to-flink-playgrounds-for-1-11-tp42360.html
[6]
http://apache-flink-mailing-list-archive.1008284.n3.nabble.com/DISCUSS-Update-our-EditorConfig-file-tp42409.html

Notable Bugs
==========

A lot of activity around release testing for Flink 1.11.0, but nothing
notable for any of our release versions.

Events, Blog Posts, Misc
===================

* Benchalo Li and Xintong Song are Apache Flink Committers now.
Congratulations! [7,8]

* Marta has published a new quarterly community update blog post on the
Flink blog. [9]

[7]
http://apache-flink-mailing-list-archive.1008284.n3.nabble.com/ANNOUNCE-New-Flink-Committer-Benchao-Li-tp42312p42353.html
[8]
http://apache-flink-mailing-list-archive.1008284.n3.nabble.com/ANNOUNCE-New-Apache-Flink-Committer-Xintong-Song-tp42194p42207.html
[9] https://flink.apache.org/news/2020/06/11/community-update.html

Cheers,

Konstantin

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Konstantin Knauf

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